ABSTRACT
Published in PW II, pp. 7–57. Japp says that the essay ‘was found in a tolerably complete condition’, but adds that
in spite of much mutilation and mixing of the pages with those of other articles, as we originally found them, it was for the most part so clearly written and carefully punctuated, that there can be no doubt, when put together, we had it before us very much as De Quincey meant to publish it had he found a fitting chance to do so.
He gives no further information about the manuscript except that the passage (‘Oh name of Coleridge…’) given as an epigraph ‘was found attached to one of the sheets’.